Hanging in the Balance: Making Decisions About the Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening Among the Oldest Old Without a Safety Net of Scientific Evidence

Hanging in the Balance: Making Decisions About the Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening Among the Oldest Old Without a Safety Net of Scientific Evidence -- Mandelblatt and Silliman 27

Editorial:
"Aside from the acknowledged methodological caveats and the potentially misleading press surrounding the article by Badgwell et al,5 the study's investigators and the Journal of Clinical Oncology are to be commended for raising difficult questions in gero-oncology, especially when the answers are imperfect. The intensity about the controversy that followed this publication reflects the fact that we are ill-prepared from a scientific knowledge perspective to provide health care rationally, ethically, equitably, and humanely to the 'booming' older population."